Post by: Jon Sundquist on February 20, 2007, 10:46:00 AM
It is great that version 3.0 allows for user-supplied maps. But they have to be user-calibrated, which works only to a certain extent.
It would be great if TF could use geotiffs (even if they had to be a specific projection) and then skip the user calibration.
I've got a ton of custom geotiffs (and create more as I need them ;-) and they are more useful than older aerial photos. I've done this recently with Google Earth, where there are tools to create tiled/multiresolution user map overlays which are especially important as the aerials (actually satellites) that GE uses for my area are terrible.
For example, and since I know you folks are Mountain Bikers, here is a (map in progress) grand overview of our MTB stomping grounds in Western New York (Requires GE 4.0):
http://www.wnymba.org/static/maps/ny-pa/ny-pa-5.kml
I would love to be able to load maps like this into TF, and have the georeferencing done automatically from the geotiff tags or world file. I realize tiling would be tough, but I could do that manually if needed.
Post by: Krein on February 20, 2007, 10:57:26 AM
Thanks for chiming in with the request. Gets me thinking about it.
Post by: on March 07, 2007, 07:54:02 PM
Post by: Larry on March 09, 2007, 06:05:03 AM
| Quote (Jon Sundquist @ Feb. 20 2007,12:46) |
| For example, and since I know you folks are Mountain Bikers, here is a (map in progress) grand overview of our MTB stomping grounds in Western New York (Requires GE 4.0): http://www.wnymba.org/static/maps/ny-pa/ny-pa-5.kml |
Jon, great stuff!
How hard is to to make kml files like the one you posted? Do you have a link to instructions and the necessary tools to make these topographic overlays for GE?
Or maybe you could suddenly take a huge interest in the Washington Cascades.
Larry